Ponytail Palm in Trouble...
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Comments (13)If I brought my ponytail palms inside, none of the leaves would survive. One of my cats goes bonkers around them and will stop at nothing to get to them, HaHa! She is relentless and stubborn about it. This is why they have to hibernate for the winter in my unheated garage. About a week ago, I was out there and brushed up against their leaves and she heard them. For the rest of the night, she sat by the door to the garage crying to get out there, even though she never goes outside and knows she's not allowed. I've since planted some cat grass and catnip for her to chew on all she wants; once they finally grow large enough, that is. She's my little assistant gardener, and just HAS to be involved whenever I'm working on my plants. As for ponytails with long curly leaves, I suspect that they do this when they're grown in shaded indirect light. They grow longer and etiolated in the lower light levels. This doesn't appear to harm them any, seeing as how they still look very green and healthy. Mine go outdoors once the weather warms up, and they stay out there almost all year long. During that time, they get full, direct sunlight shining down on them from sunrise to sunset. Of my two largest ponytail palms, the larger one seems to have longer leaves that hang down lower. The other has leaves that curve inwards. I love the way each of them look. I plan on moving them along with almost everything else, back outdoors over the weekend. For where I live, it appears that the bitter cold days of winter are behind us. Now comes spring, along with its thunderstorms....See MorePonytail Palm problem
Comments (6)In my experience, pony tail palms are really sensitive to too much water and/or having too much mulch near their trunks. Have you mulched them recently? Have they gotten more rain than they need? That might leave them vulnerable to bugs/slugs. I had one in a pot for several years and put it out into the yard about a year ago. One of the three stems went great guns. It's four-feet high now, from six inches. The other two did not like their conditions and I think both have died. I do think they're really sensitive to getting too wet or having mulch too close to their trunks/being planted too deep....See MorePonytail Palm - Extra Long Leaves, Normal?
Comments (60)Fabulous now that we can see Cher in all her glory! Oh my, Maria, you took the leaf of faith, Cher looks great! I bet with the trim and repot, her elegant ballerina like figure (caudex ) will plump up a bit. She looks very elegant with her long slender look! I love that we can now see her in full :) You must be so happy to have accomplished this! I found the same with Harry when I repotted him, most roots where on the outside. Having only chopped Harry's heads off once... Here was my thinking: Cut them off in fall, allow him to sit in a low light area and water once a month at most. Let him gather strength for spring. Come March he had new sprouts starting. At first they were little bumps, then fully fledged sprouts and then by summer, he was on his way to his new stout look. I think late fall may be best as you will want to stop watering her due to her having no leaves, plus this will give her time to re-establish her roots between now and then. Harry did fine with watering him once a month in winter. I only started watering him once a few of his sprouts were about an inch long and green. If you look at the photo above of him with his heads cut off and the one before it, you will notice that his caudex is plump in the one with his heads and then it is more wrinkly in the one with the new sprouts. We do this same routine each winter. He looks dehydrated early spring from the lack of water in the winter but by spring he's re-hydrated and plumped up. Have you thought about how much you want to cut off? I look forward to the next update on Cher!...See MorePonytail palm leaves breaking
Comments (2)I think I was reading that thread earlier today but didn't see if they ended up solving their issue. This one lives right up against a bank of sunny south windows already, so hopefully the new supplemental light will help then if I can figure out how to use it without frying it....See Morecamelliaalan
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